..Development of policies to address these specific service gaps may be warranted. Low income has a more pervasive and problematic relationship to self-reported access, satisfaction and utilization than does rural residence per se...

The economic implications of self-care: the effect of lifestyle, functional adaptations, and medical self-care among a national sample of Medicare beneficiaries

S C StearnsDepartment of Health Policy and Administration, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, 27599 7400, USAAm J Public Health 90:1608-12. 2000

..This study measured associations between self-care practices (lifestyle practices, adaptations to functional limitations, and medical self-care) and Medicare expenditures among a national sample of adults 65 years and older...

Staying the course: facility and profession retention among nursing assistants in nursing homes

..The predicted differences between the models are sufficient to justify reassessment of the value of inclusion of time to death in models for predicting health care expenditures...

Psychosocial and educational outcomes associated with home- and clinic-based pretest education and cystic fibrosis carrier testing among a population of at-risk relatives

B CheuvrontDepartment of Health Behavior and Health Education, School of Public Health, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill 27599 7505, USAAm J Med Genet 75:461-8. 1998

..In light of the increasing interest in home-based medical testing of all kinds, this study suggests that CF carrier testing in the home warrants further consideration as one possible approach to facilitating access to testing...

..To estimate the effectiveness of a medical office-based preventive dental program (Into the Mouths of Babes [IMB]), which included fluoride varnish application, in reducing treatments related to dental caries...

Cost-effectiveness of a behavioral weight loss intervention for low-income women: the Weight-Wise Program

..To assess longitudinally whether a change in registered nurse (RN) staffing and skill mix leads to a change in nursing home resident outcomes while controlling for the potential endogeneity of staffing...

..HD is provided in three main settings: hospital (24.5 percent), satellite (10.9 percent), or home (1.7 percent). The objective of this study is to explore the cost-effectiveness of these different modalities...